The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-02-24

rooms to.day. Mayor Call oun presid-
iLg, to consider the bills now before
the Legislature for dividing Stearns
county. Sank Centre has agitatrd
this subject for some time, desiring
to become the county seat OF the NV
cnunty. 1t is proposed To include
fourteen towns in this new county.
If all the towns named should vote
solid for the division, the proposition.
could not be carried, and but few
even of those towns favor it. The
meetitg was most emphatic upon the
question. All were unanimously
opposed to having the question acted
upon in any manner, and were de-
termined THAT it should he nlpped IN
the but. The holding of adjourned
terms of court at Sank Centre was
also opposed. The following res"-
lueions were passed without dissent:
Whereas, 1t is the sense of this meeting
that very large majority OF the residents OF
stearss county are opposed to the division
of said couhty, and are opposed to the or
ganizatlon of a new county out of any por-
ton of the territory now within the limits OF
said county CT Stearns; therefore
Resolved, That we are opposed 10 submit
ting the question of dividing the county to
vote of the people, as it would only result in
unnecessary trouble, agitation and expense.
Resolved, That the delegation for Stearns
county in the senate and house be requested
TO oppose the passage of any bill for the d.
vision of this county.
Resolved, That said delegation be also re-
Cd fn he yi1 for no
| holding of adjourned terms of the district
court at Sank Centre. believing this TO be
unusual and undesirable.
A committee WAS appointed TO take
the resolutions to St. Paul and to
send back copies of the bill providing
for the annexation OF Il part Of the
town of Haven To st. Cloud for mum.
cipal purposes. An adjourned citi
Zens' meeting will be held tomorrow
evening.
Sank Centre has been only QUE
element in the agit ton of county
division. the entire western portion
of the county being practically Il
unit in the matter, and no claim has
ever been set up for Il county seat at
Sank Centre, but the bill expressly
declares that the county seat shall be
located ty the voters OF the proposed
new county. TO say that only ii few
of the western Stearns tavOrS d.
vision is "a graIuity-thr facts will
better appear by suh'n'sSi"i +" il
vote. There is roo rst,othrg tie
fact that St. Clio Il Iui'I.dS H. ''u,i. i
in the bur il pu>s.ll., lad ii, ~ Ii,
the privilege of IIGh ~ ! In"as "nt-
ragroUs wiOng. st. Clio Il his h.,n
nIpplng everything proposed ny
western St..arnS in the bud for tie
past twenty years, and has call ird
its nipping prOpensillrS so far as to
nip fair, square and honorable
agreement not to oppose the division
bill. AS nippers st. Cloud aspires to
an exalted position.
If such a large majority is offered
to division why nip the bud, but
wait and pull the full blown flower?
The fact is that st. Cloud fears to
submit the proposition, and its talk
about "troublt, agitation and eX.
pense' is the sheerest nonsense in
the world. The agitation is the only
factor that is alarming and St. Cloud
only is alarmed at it. The trouble
and expense are mythical as no
trouble and expense will be added to
the next general election by submit.
ting the proposition.
But it caps the climax of perfidy
in resolving to defeat the district
court bill, suggested as il was by
Judge Collins, and by him offered
and put into the hands of the mem.
Der Of this district, at least he Was
present when it was committed tC
Mr.. Halvorson, and expressed his
approval.
This meeting of citizens made an
open declaration of war upon west
ern Stearns, and the issue is accepted
with all it may imply. While the
action is contem ptible it was not un.
expected. st. Cloud will yet learn
that it pays to keep good faith even
with those whom it has used us sub
servient tools in the past. Fortu
nately for western Stearns St. Cloud
has not the power to disfranchise it.
Honesty is the best policy, even fol
st. Cloud.